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Abia [æbˈiːa]
n
(Placename) a state of SE Nigeria. Capital: Umuahia. Pop.: 2 569 362 (1995 est). Area (including Imo state): 11 850 sq. km (4575 sq. miles)
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1706-1717 On January 17, 1706, Benjamin Franklin is born into the large family of Josiah and Abiah Franklin in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Her list of the island's "good" women of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries includes Maria Mitchell (1818-1889), America's first female astronomer; Abiah Folger (1667-1752), Benjamin Franklin's mother; Lucretia Mott (1793-1880), abolitionist and leader in the women's rights movement; and Mary Coffin Starbuck (1645-1717), the island's first shopkeeper and one of the most famous Quaker preachers of her day.
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